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Spillover : Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen, Cécile Dutheil de La Rochère, Eva Roques, Laurence Decréau, Pascal Picq is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Spillover : Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic about?

**A __Booklist__ Top 10 Science Book of 2012, a 2012 __New York Times Book Review__ Notable Book, and a __Daily Beast__ "Top 11 Book of 2012" A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.** The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia—but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called __spillover__. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the field—netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo—with the world’s leading disease scientists. In __Spillover__ Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing quest to learn __how__, __where from__, and __why__ these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?

Who reads Spillover : Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic?

Author

David Quammen, Cécile Dutheil de La Rochère, Eva Roques, Laurence Decréau, Pascal Picq

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company; W.W. Norton & Co.

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393066807

Category

science

Subjects

Medical, Fiction, Science

Rating

4.27 / 5 (3,263 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14